Issue: 788
May 09, 2019
Color of Law
Mark Thompson is Missing from the Airwaves, and Why That Matters
Executive Editor
Trump is dismantling the administrative state with all deliberate speed, trampling on the rights of racial and religious minority groups and creating its own reality, its own truth through the manipulation of propaganda, distortions and outright lies. Today, more than ever, we need powerful, unadulterated and unfiltered voices such as Mark Thompson, who speak truth to power and hold the powerful accountable.
W A T C H 📺 Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka convened @Afrikathegreat, @Mysonne & me. There is peace. ✌🏿👊🏿 - Mhttps://t.co/NYXEuabKne Following his suspension from the SiriusXM…
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Cover Story
Malcolm X’s Legacy Continues – Worrill’s World
Columnist
Malcolm felt that a United Front was the necessary mechanism by which the political consciousness of African people in America could be raised. Also, he felt that this United Front would be the common voice we needed to represent the Black Liberation movement in this country. Many of us are still working to build this United Front concept of organizing toward our liberation in America.
Since the untimely transition of Malcolm X in 1965, movement forces throughout the world have consistently commemorated his birthday. Malcolm X was born on May 19,…
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Commentary
How Strong Is Our Economy?
Editorial Board
Whenever you hear the words "strong economy," think of the folks at the bottom. While the top one percent are certainly benefiting from growth and expansion, those at the bottom haven't yet benefited. Indeed, some have yet to recover from the Great Recession.
The April unemployment rate, at 3.6 percent, is at its lowest rate since December 1969. Payroll employment increased by more than 250,000, outperforming expectations and reversing…
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Commentary
To Impeach or Not to Impeach?
Editorial Board
Trump recognizes himself as under attack now, so he’ll make himself a martyr for under the lights and before the cameras. Show time!
Any politics that fails to understand the rise of the right as an extension of the past, rather than its inversion, is both deeply flawed and…
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Commentary
Why the Teacher Shortage? – Solidarity America
Columnist
Their strikes are most often about the care they can provide and the teaching attention they can give to each student. That should tell the American people about the state of the caring professions,
There is a teacher shortage in the nation and it should not take a great deal of thought to find the reason: they are not paid…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
How Far Will White America Let Trump Go?
Columnist
Anti-Black, Anti-Muslim, Anti-Native folk, Anti-Asian, Anti-Latino, Anti any woman with a mind and body of her own - these are the philosophical cornerstones of Trump’s 21st Century Neo-Confederacy.
Once upon a time called right now . . . ! A century from now, the historians will describe this era of the Black American experience,…
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Commentary
School Choice Promoters ‘Snitch’ on Their Benefactors
Columnist
The key issues for the Democratic constituency in the upcoming election are: larger paychecks, support for public education, health care, and honest government. Public school teachers, through their on-the-ground work stoppages and legislative activism, have placed K-12 education on the front political burner.
Times are a changing in the school choice and public school privatization debate and controversies. After years of expensive lobbying and political campaign contributions by the…
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Guest Commentary
Reparations a True Path to Freedom and Justice for All
Guest Commentator
To all those Whites who make the lame argument that they did not enslave anyone or that they and their relatives never owned slaves guess what? So what?! The cold, hard undeniable truth is that you and your forebears have and still do benefit from past and present day retrograde institutional policies that had/still have a disproportionate negative impact on many Black people. Case closed.
For the last three decades, the issue of reparations has ebbed and flowed in the American psyche. The subject began to gain stem in the early…
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